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20 Cards in this Set
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What was the immigration station in the New York harbor?
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Ellis Island
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What was the immigration station in San Francisco Bay?
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Angel Bay
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What were the 4 things they were screening for?
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-disease
-mental illness -criminals -political radicals |
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Which nationality faced strict immigration laws which limited entrance to certain skilled workers?
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Chinese
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Immigrants were often urged by employers, public institutions, and sometimes even family members to do what?
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join the American mainstream
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Most immigrants shared a common work experience, they did the country's what?
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dirty work
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Did immigrant workers play an important role in operating factories that contributed to a strong U.S. economy?
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Yes
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Many native-born Americans saw immigration as a what?
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threat
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Many Americans saw the newcomers as too different to do what?
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fit into American society
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What social problems were blamed on the immigrants?
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crime, poverty, violence, and spreading radical political ideas
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What caused people in California to be less tolerant of Chinese workers in 1873?
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Unemployment following the Panic of 1873
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What did they do to some Chinese in California?
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Mobs attacked them, killing some and burning the property of others
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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
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It denied citizenship to people born in China and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
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What sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants?
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Immigration Restriction League
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Was Congress in favor of this law?
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Yes
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Who vetoed the law?
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President Grover Cleveland
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Immigrants who came to the U.S. before the 1880s
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old immigrants
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Immigrants who came to the U.S. between the 1880s and the 1910s
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new immigrants
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Poor accommodations in a ship's lower levels
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steerage
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Organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death
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benevolent societies
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